Tracks: Siren Call; I Found the Letter; Shy As a Butterfly; Just Didn't Mean It; Jerk Chicken; Nothing Seems To Work Right; Sting Like a Bee; You're Nothing But a Pack of Cards; Gentle Refrain; Land of Green...
Artists:
The Mighty Sceptres

Immersed in the same scene that gave the world deep soul revivalists like the Dap-Kings, the Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, and more, seven-piece Brooklyn band Ikebe Shakedown take the Daptone label...continue...

A nice throwback to the days of backpack rap, 2013's Soundsational draws entirely from the catalog of underground singer Mike James Kirkland, a Mississippi soul artist who recorded two albums for MCA ...continue...

Tracks: Prelude to a Long Love Affair; Long Love Affair, A; Song For Love On a Summer Night, A; Somebody's Got to Be That Guy; What's in My Heart; Little Song, The; Night of Our Dreams; Good Lookin' Blues; S...
Artists:
Johnny Coppola

Four years after Berlin Serengeti, composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Niko Schabel resurrects Radio Citizen for Hope and Despair. The album builds on the esthetics of its predecessor and evolves ...continue...

"'The Story Teller' has vocals but not one single lyric. So how does this person who may not even be a person use no words...continue...
The Clutchy Hopkins myth continues on Ubiquity, and one wonders how long they'll hold onto it, though for now they are layering more of the seemingly fictitious story in. For The Storyteller, the prod...continue...

Kings Ballad, following Umsindo by only six months and released on Ubiquity instead of her and husband Dudley Perkins' SomeOthaShip, is Georgia Anne Muldrow's most direct, least idiosyncratic release,...continue...

Somewhere between the past and the distant future, at the sonic cross-roads of Detroit and Vienna, lay the sound stories brewing in the head of...continue...
The Clonious, aka Paul Movahedi, the 23-year-old Viennese graduate of the Red Bull Music Academy, makes music that sounds like what J Dilla or Madlib would do if either had studied jazz composition in...continue...

Tracks: Begin; Sleep; Time of Day; We Fight; Looking at Your Face; Continue to Call; Running; New Orleans; Stella; Something Like?; What U Do 2 Me; All Around the World; I Love Myself
Artists:
Nino Moschella

As an award winning producer and member of the hip hop production team THE PRUNES, PEDER has produced, remixed and released a long list of...continue...
Additional personnel: Ane Trolle, Joy Morgan, Dean Bowman, Nino Moschella.